Cartoon Creation Quotes

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

Campaigns are about creating cartoons.

Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

On the 'Tom and Jerry's,' Joe and I would sit across a desk from each other and develop the story. Joe would do the storyboard and I'd do the timing and the direction of the animation.

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.